As she got onto the bus, Weiss made sure that she didn't look like she had been crying moments before she climbed on. She sat down and went to listen to some music for the journey and unwind after her the day that she had just gone through. One of her best performances of the year, telling her parents about her sexuality, as well as both of them accepting her as who she was, and to top it off, she could feel all of the energy that was around her. As much as she wanted to let it all in, she felt as though her body needed to rest after the stress that it had gone through recently, so rest is what she would do at that moment.
Not a moment later though, she noticed that Pyrrha started to sit down next to her, causing Weiss to slide in to allow her to sit. She pulled off the headphones she wore and let them rest around her neck, making sure that the music was low enough so that it wouldn't bother Pyrrha that much.
"Hey, I didn't realize you wanted to sit with me tonight," Weiss said to Pyrrha. As surprised as she was that Pyrrha would sit with her, Weiss definitely wasn't going to ask her to leave.
"I felt like sitting with you tonight I guess," Pyrrha said at first. "First off, congrats on the amazing game you had tonight."
The comment definitely made Weiss feel good about herself at that moment. She smiled and lightly chuckled, feeling her heart start to beat faster as Pyrrha complimented her. "Thanks, though you get credit for that last shot though just as much as I do."
"If you say so I guess," Pyrrha replied. "So you still bothered by the thing with your family?"
Weiss wasn't surprised that Pyrrha wanted to know about that, and to be honest, she didn't blame Pyrrha for asking her about it. "I got my answer after all," She said. Just thinking about it brought a tear to her eye. She looked over to Pyrrha who was just about ready to console her, Pyrrha looked terrified out of her mind. "Oh man, it's not like that. It's good, I swear, everything's good." Weiss said.
She saw Pyrrha let out a sigh of relief. "Ok good, I was worried for a second," Pyrrha said, relief filling her voice clearly. "You want to talk about it?"
Weiss decided to wrap her arm around Pyrrha's shoulders for a sec. "Not right now, though I do appreciate the gesture. I promise that you'll know about it soon, I just need time to go about saying it in the first place."
Pyrrha nodded at that, understanding that it would be said in time. "Of course, and don't feel rushed on my accord," Pyrrha said. They started to hear the bus move, signalling that they had started to head home. "Well, looks like we're on our way back now."
"Yeah, I'm gonna enjoy getting some rest tonight after the day that I had," Weiss responded.
"I don't doubt you on that one. Should be a great night of rest," Pyrrha said back to her. Weiss motioned that she was going to put her music on, asking if Pyrrha wouldn't mind her doing so. "Ok, thanks for letting me know."
Before she could get her headphones on however, Weiss felt a shoulder tap her shoulder. She looked back to see part of Yang's mane sticking over the seat dangerously close to her head. It startled her for a second, causing her to let out a small yelp and jump towards the window.
"Yo, me and Blake were thinking of going to get a few pizzas with the gang when we get back to the school. Neo's good to join, along with Ruby, Nora, Sun, Sage and Scarlet. We're still waiting on Jaune and Ren but I expect them to join us soon," Yang said. Almost immediately, Yang felt her phone go off and she looked down at it. "Scratch that, I just got a text from Jaune, he's with Ren and they're both good to join as well. You guys want in?"
"Sure, I'll just let my parents know that I'll be out with you guys," Pyrrha said, pulling out her phone. "How about you, Weiss?"
Weiss gave it some thought then figured that it would be fun, and she deserved some fun after the day she had. "I gotta ask my parents about it first but I don't think they would mind since I'd be going with you guys anyway," Weiss said. "Plus I feel like I need a break anyway, and this would be a nice start."
Yang threw her hair back over her shoulder while Weiss spoke. "Yeah, thank god it's the weekend," She said.
'How can you deal with having that much of a thick head of hair? Emphasis on the thick.' Weiss thought to herself as she opened up her parents contact information. She figured that her father was driving right now so she gave her mother a call. Once she got an answer, she covered her other ear so that the sounds of Yang and Pyrrha talking wouldn't distract her from her conversation with them.
"Hey, is everything alright?" Her mother said.
"Yeah, everything's fine mother, I just wanted to ask you something real quick," Weiss said. She could tell that Pyrrha and Yang stopped talking to hear what she had to say.
"Oh, and what is it exactly?"
"I was invited to go get a pizza with my friends after we get back from the game. I would be able to get a ride back home no problem since one of them would drive me back, but I just wanted to ask if it was ok with you if I do that," Weiss said.
Weiss heard her mother speaking to her father, but the phone was away from her so she couldn't hear exactly what she was saying. After a few moments, she started talking into the phone again. "Your father wants to know who exactly it is you're hanging out with. He wants to make sure your safe is all."
"Yeah, well Ruby is going to be there, as well as a few of the girls that are on the soccer team with me, which is how I was invited in the first place. Other than that it's just going to be the friends that normally hang out with," Weiss said.
Again, there was more conversation between Weiss' mother and father. "Alright, your father says that you can go, just don't stay out too late. And if you do spend the night out with a friend, send us a message so that we know where you are, ok?" Her mother said after a few moments.
"I'll be sure to do that, thank you." Weiss said back to her.
"Alright then, you have a wonderful time," Weiss' mother said before their conversation ended.
"You too, mother," Weiss hung up upon finishing the conversation then turned to Yang and Pyrrha. "I'm good to go with you guys."
Yang threw her hands up in the air and fell back into her seat. "This, is going to be awesome!" She shouted, which brought on a quick glare from Goodwitch. "Sorry, coach. Didn't mean to bother anyone." She rubbed the back of her neck while saying that, mentally kicking herself for blundering like that as well.
"I got the ok from my parents as well, so the whole gangs going out then," Pyrrha said. "So Yang, which place are we going to?"
"Uncle Joe's," Yang said back.
"Ah, going with the best tonight, huh? That wouldn't happen to be because of our victory, you couldn't be planning something like that," Pyrrha said, making sure to throw some extra sarcasm in as well.
"You could say that, also figured that Weiss needs to try their cheesy goodness," Yang said back to her.
"Come again?" Weiss asked.
"Trust us, you'll enjoy the pizza, very, very much," Yang said quickly before returning to her seat. Pyrrha nodded and pulled out a notebook and began writing. At that point, Weiss decided that she was just going to put her music back on and wait for the bus to arrive back at the school.
After they arrived back at the school, they were greeted with the sight of most of their friends already there waiting for them to show up.
"So, how did the game go exactly?" Jaune asked when they all got together.
"Let's just say that, we came, we challenged, and we kicked so much a-" Yang went to say, before being cut off by Blake.
"You mean, Weiss, she was the one who pretty much cinched the game for us after all."
"Details, Blake, details," Yang said casually.
"Oh? So Weiss here returns as the conquering hero?" Scarlet asked.
"Yep, she scored all three of our goals today," Pyrrha said, emphasizing the number of goals.
"Oh hell yeah," Sun said. "Weiss, you bring much honor to the name, Beacon." Sun made sure to sound as weird as possible when he said that.
"I couldn't have done it without the rest of the team here, without them it wouldn't turn out the same," Weiss said, trying her hardest to be modest.
"Even after you got knocked around like a ragdoll more than your fair share of times? I think that more than qualifies you for some major bragging rights," Yang said.
"Sounds great. I assume that's where all of the dirt and scrapes come from huh?" Sage asked. When Weiss nodded in response, Sage just gave her a pat on the shoulder. "Eh, just means that Yang's right, you get major bragging rights in the school for the next week or so."
"If you guys say so, I guess," Weiss said. "Anyway, lets go get pizza." Everyone seemed to agree with that idea.
Before they left, everyone figured out who was going with who, Yang, Neo, Ruby and Jaune traveling together, Nora, Ren, Blake and Sun going in the same car, and Pyrrha, Weiss, Sage and Scarlet riding with Pyrrha. From there, they all drove to the pizza place where they planned to eat at, the entire time, Sage and Scarlet talked to Weiss about how incredible the pizza was.
When they arrived at the pizza place, they walked in and received a pretty loud ovation from most of the people in the establishment. "Thank you, thank you, we appreciate the love," Yang said, expecting this reaction. "But, let's show some love for the MVP of tonight's game, one Weiss Schnee, tonight's scoring champion."
The place went ballistic when she finished speaking. The next minute or two was spent with most of the patrons congratulating Weiss, Pyrrha, Blake, Yang and Neo on a stellar performance, a few of them even chipping in a few bucks to pay for their pizzas. Pyrrha, Blake, Neo and Weiss didn't feel ok with it, but after some convincing from Sun, Yang, Scarlet, Sage, Nora and Ruby, they reluctantly agreed to it. After all, one or two bucks from all the people that gave them money wasn't going to hurt them in any way, and after a few minutes of kind donations, they had enough to cover for all of them to get a couple slices of pizza.
"So, who's going up to get it?" Yang asked.
"Yo," Ruby volunteered.
Seeing an opportunity to talk with Ruby about what had happened with her conversation the night before, Weiss decided to go up with her. Upon arriving at the counter, they placed their order and then went to chat for a few moments. "So, I talked to my parents last night," Weiss started.
"Oh, and how did that go?" Ruby asked. She knew it was a serious subject, so she made sure to take it seriously while they talked about it.
"While my mom was fine with it right away, my father took a bit longer to come around. But even he did, and he said he was proud of me earlier today," Weiss was really surprised that she wasn't crying over the thought of what transpired.
"I'm glad to hear it," Ruby said. She looked back over to the table. "So what are you going to tell Pyrrha? She needs to know about this soon."
After finishing with paying for the pizzas, Weiss turned to speak to Ruby about it. "I don't know what to do about it, at least not right now. Give me some time and I'll figure out what to say to her, I still need to let what happened earlier sink in," Weiss said. The two of them walked back over to their table and waited with everyone for their food.
When it finally arrived, they all feasted, Weiss officially saying that it was the best pizza she had ever eaten before in her life. After they had many conversations, especially the one where Ruby and Weiss were surprised to find out that Yang and Neo were dating, they had eventually decided that it was time for them to go. Given that they had spent quite a few hours at the place, they figured they all needed a good nights sleep, and a nice quiet weekend as well. So they decided that it was time for them to go separate ways. Sun took Sage off of Weiss and Pyrrha's hands, and Yang took Scarlet home, giving Weiss and Pyrrha a nice quiet ride together.
"You mind if I put on some music?" Pyrrha asked.
"Not at all, it's your car after all," Weiss responded.
Pyrrha plugged in her iPod and selected something easy going, playing some Frank Sinatra for their journey. She wanted to play something a bit more uptempo, but figured it would be better if she played something more relaxed while Weiss was in the car with her. "Nice choice, though I never pegged you as the kind to listen to Sinatra," Weiss said.
"I figured it you would like it, at least for right now since it'd help us wind down for the night," Pyrrha said in her own defense.
"True, though I have heard what you listen to before and I do like some of it," Weiss responded.
"Well then I'll be sure to put some on at some point, but for now, we get Sinatra," Pyrrha said.
"Yeah, that outta be nice and relaxing for us," Weiss said. She felt her heart soar at Pyrrha's concern over her. It made her feel welcome, loved, wanted. She felt like Pyrrha deserved to hear about what had been causing her so much distress all day, especially after she showed great concern for her without demanding to know why it was. "Hey, Pyrrha," Weiss said during the drive.
"Yeah, Weiss?"
"About earlier today, you know, with what I've been dealing with," Weiss started off with. She felt a need to let it out, not only for herself, but for Pyrrha since she should know about all of this.
"Don't feel obligated to tell me if you don't want to," Pyrrha said, restating her point from earlier.
Weiss sighed, she knew Pyrrha would react that way, but it didn't matter. She wanted to tell her, deep down even she knew that. "The reason I was worried as I was all day today was because," She took pause to figure out how exactly to say it. "I told my parents that I'm bi."
Pyrrha felt a little bit of shock when she heard that, but she managed to not show it in a bad way. "Really? So was it that your father didn't know how to react to it at first?"
Nodding, Weiss let out another sigh. "Yeah, I was so worried all day that he would think that I'm a freak, but after the game, he told me that he was proud of me, and that he loves me," She said. It definitely got easier for Weiss to say that after a few times.
"Well, that's good to hear," Pyrrha said. "And you know that we all in our little gang wouldn't think any differently of you."
"I know that now, especially after seeing that Yang and Neo are together," Weiss said. "I guess that's why Yang is apparently trying to learn sign language."
"Is she really?" Pyrrha asked. When Weiss nodded, Pyrrha seemed a bit in disbelief. "Huh, that's actually really thoughtful of Yang, one of her rare times of being so."
"Yeah, I found that out from Ruby when I asked to talk with her yesterday. It stunned me for a bit at first but now I can completely understand why she is doing that," Weiss said.
"Yeah, it certainly is," Pyrrha responded. She wanted to continue talking for the rest of the time they were driving, and so she thought of something to continue the conversation. "So, why don't you tell me about your parents?"
Weiss seemed like that fit into the discussion at hand. "Well, my father served in the military, he recently retired as a Captain and so we moved out here so that he could enjoy his retirement in peace," Weiss said. "Granted, he still works for the military, per se, as a recruiter, but at least he doesn't have to worry about moving from place to place anymore."
"That sounds like it must've been hard growing up," Pyrrha said.
"Yeah, there was times when he wasn't around and it was just me my mother and my sister, Winter, but when he was there he made sure to be there for everything that was important to us," Weiss said back to Pyrrha, "It's why he always shows up to my games, so that he can remind me that he still cares for me, and wants to be a part of my life."
"It sounds like he really does care, and given that he loves you despite being bi, just goes to show that he really means it when he says that," Pyrrha said.
Weiss took a moment to think about what Pyrrha said. "Yeah, I guess you're right," She said. Not wanting the conversation to end herself, she thought of something to ask her family. "What about you? What's your family like?"
"I'm an only child and both my parents work at the hospital," Pyrrha said. "My dad works security there, while my mom is a nurse. Sometimes their schedules get out of whack but it hasn't caused any problems for us before."
"They sound like wonderful people," Weiss said.
"That they are," Pyrrha responded.
Around that time, Weiss noticed the tune that had come on, the version of Moonlight Serenade that was sung by Frank Sinatra. She always enjoyed the song, and felt as if it fit her at times. Realizing how close they were to her house, she helped guide Pyrrha to the right place. She didn't want the ride to end, she was enjoying the moment way too much for it to be over for hoped that they would have some more time together before they arrived, but when Weiss saw her home show up in the distance, she had to accept that it wouldn't work out that way.
Pulling into the driveway, Weiss realized that her bags were in the trunk of the car. "Could you pop the trunk for me?" Weiss asked. Once they parked, Pyrrha pressed the button to open up the trunk for Weiss, who had gotten out of the car to do that. Weiss had her cleats in her bag, and her dirt covered jersey was covered up in a thin zip up hoodie. She hadn't even bothered with the dirt on her face, knowing that the only people there would be her friends. Once she grabbed her bags, she closed the trunk and then walked over to the window where Pyrrha said to say goodbye to Pyrrha.
"So Pyrrha, I wanted to thank you," Weiss said.
"For what?" Pyrrha responded.
"For listening to what I had to say earlier, for being there for me even when I didn't ask you to," Weiss said, hearing the words to the song in the background. "It made me feel great when you did that."
So don't, let me wait
"Weiss, you know that I would always be there for you, no matter what," Pyrrha said. "It's what friends are for."
Come to me, tenderly, in the moonlight
"Regardless, I just wanted to say, thank you, for everything," Weiss said.
I stand, at your gate
"You're welcome, and I hope you're willing to talk with me more often since I love spending time with you," Pyrrha responded.
And I sing, you a song, in the moonlight,
Pyrrha offered Weiss a hug through the car window, and while there wasn't much room, the two of them were able to hug each other before they gave their goodbyes.
A love song, my darling
It all happened quickly, too quick for Pyrrha to grasp at the moment it had happened. One moment she had been hugging Weiss, and the next, she felt Weiss press her lips against her own and kiss her. Pyrrha's eyes were wide open with surprise at the sudden action, and almost as quickly as it had started, Weiss' lips departed her own and Weiss looked as if she planned the whole thing out.
A moonlight, serenade
"I'll see you later, Pyrrha. Goodnight," Weiss said as she turned to walk into her house, leaving Pyrrha out there to figure out what had just happened, before she eventually decided that it was better to head home and think about it there.
Weiss walked into her room and went to go get ready for a good nights sleep. After taking a quick shower, she changed into her sleepwear and laid down on her bed, thinking about what had transpired between her and Pyrrha.
'That was quite a lovely conversation between us, how she was so concerned for me no matter how much I knew that I couldn't tell her at first. But then she was willing to open up a bit about herself to me, like I was able to do with her. And then there was that kiss that we had that felt absolutely...'
Weiss stopped thinking for a moment after she finally realized what she had done. Shooting up from her bed, her eyes went wide and she felt her heart go fit to burst at any moment. She immediately went into a panic at what she had done, what she didn't even realize was her own doing until well after it had happened.
She had kissed Pyrrha.
"OH MY FUCKING GOD, WHAT DID I DO?!"
AN: God I love this chapter. When I wrote this out, I was beyond happy with how it ended up going. Especially this brilliant ending that I came up with. Got a few things to point out though before we go on. Firstly the pizza place they go to is a shoutout to an actual pizza place that I have at school, they have some really great pizza too. Second, Pyrrha's parents are a shoutout to BNW, with those roles being for Ruby and Yang's parents.
Last little detail to point out, the song of course is called Moonlight Serenade, and it is the version that is sung by Frank Sinatra. It's actually part of the inspiration for the last scene in the chapter, so that's why it's as good of a brain child as I could come up with.
Anyway, thank you all for reading this very beautiful chapter of BotB, and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, and Happy Holidays to everyone.